“Do not speak ill about the dead”… So does it mean that I should not be true to myself when I talk about a person who is dead?
For crying out loud Jane Doe was a very mean person while she was alive. She wasn’t loved one bit, not even a person from her family held her dear to heart because of how troublesome she was and then boom! I am reading tributes written about her and I am shocked. Like is this Jane Doe or some other individual?
READ: DEATH OF LOVED ONES, PRIOR GESTURES
Truth is a man cannot be more than what he is, whether dead or alive. If a man was very wicked while he was alive, if a man was an alcoholic, if a man was promiscuous, if a man was dreaded…etc. a beautiful tribute intended to change the narrative or appease the dead because we want to walk the good path is useless. why say otherwise?
READ: IS DEATH AN OPEN SESAME?
In my opinion, a dead man even more than the living deserves the sincerity of his loved ones and others who knew him. It’s crazy that you lie to someone’s face when they are alive, and then you also lie at their death.
Let’s endeavor to coat our tributes with the truth instead of making it a bed of lies. People should read and marvel at what kind of soul he/she must have been while alive. It is appalling to note that in a world where just a pinch of the population is nice, one hardly comes across a negative remark in a tribute. Does it mean that people are automatically sanctified at their death? If you were unhappy with me while I was alive, I beg you, do not disguise it with the finest of words when I die for it will only kill me a second time.
I think people just generally feel sympathy for the dead.
Yeah sympathy and the need to lie if they have to. Thank you👌
I think people generally feel sorry for them selves when another person is dead not necessarily the dead person.
Hmmmmm! Perhaps sorry and scared, hence the need to be careful with choice of words. Thank you 🙂
Speaking Ill of the dead doesn’t show any humanity at all no one is holier than the other, It’s called last respects for a reason
Not mandating that there should be Ill talks but advocating for the truth. Atleast a reasonable fraction of it.👌
If everything I know of a dead person are his wrong doings, I cant cook up things I didnt notice of them because I want to pay them last respect. If they must get that respect, they must’ve lived a life of respect.
I do not speak ill of the dead because I’m afraid they might knock my head off.
I believe when people die, they have the power to hurt the living, this belief is the reason why I only say nice things about people when they die even if they were terrible while they were alive.
🤣🤣🤣 ‘knock my head’got me rolling, it reminded me of the popular ‘Old Roger’ poem.
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Whether you talk good or bad, it doesn’t change the fact that who don die don die.😁 Life continues Bruh!
Mehn! Last last o🤔